{"id":205382,"date":"2025-02-03T18:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/nature-inspired-nanotechnology-acts-as-bodys-own-courier-service-for-genetic-medicines"},"modified":"2025-02-03T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:28:07","slug":"nature-inspired-nanotechnology-acts-as-bodys-own-courier-service-for-genetic-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/nature-inspired-nanotechnology-acts-as-bodys-own-courier-service-for-genetic-medicines","title":{"rendered":"Nature-inspired nanotechnology acts as body\u2019s own courier service for genetic medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nature-inspired-nanotechnology-acts-as-bodys-own-courier-service-for-genetic-medicines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A large research team led by nanotechnologist Roy van der Meel rebuilt the body\u2019s own proteins and fats into nano-delivery vans that get genetic medicines to exactly the right place in the body. In a joint effort with researchers from Radboudumc, they worked for five years on this nanotransport system, the results of which were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41565-024-01847-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>With his rugged beard and signature lumberjack shirt, nanotechnologist Roy van der Meel seems to have walked straight out of a Canadian forest hut instead of a high-tech lab. In Canada, Van der Meel did indeed work as a postdoc for Professor Pieter Cullis, founder of the nanotechnology used for messenger RNA vaccines. Five years ago, he exchanged Vancouver for a spot in Eindhoven. Professor Willem Mulder brought Van der Meel to TU\/e because of his RNA nanotechnology expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Diseases that are currently difficult to cure, such as certain cancers and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/autoimmune+diseases\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">autoimmune diseases<\/a>, can benefit from genetic drugs based on RNA. But then we must be able to get those medicines to the right place and that turns out to be a huge task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large research team led by nanotechnologist Roy van der Meel rebuilt the body\u2019s own proteins and fats into nano-delivery vans that get genetic medicines to exactly the right place in the body. In a joint effort with researchers from Radboudumc, they worked for five years on this nanotransport system, the results of which were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}